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Reason and Goodness.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter I The tension between reason and feeling in western ethics; 1. Is reason or feeling primary in moral judgment?; 2. The issue is of practical importance; 3. It is rooted in an ancient tension in western ethics; 4. Greek moralists conceived life as the striving for an end; 5. Which became explicit only in ethical reflection; 6. And involved a world-view; 7. They held that knowledge was required for virtue and led to it.
- 8. Their ethical ideal produced many remarkable characters9. The Christian emphasis was not on knowledge, but on love; 10. Which was essentially, though not merely, feeling; 11. The Greek and Christian emphases are thus in sharp contrast; 12. But we regard both as essential in the appraising of conduct; Chapter II Stoicism and the supremacy of reason; 1. The Stoic ideal was, in a double sense, comformity to reason; 2. Which required the acceptance of all that happened as necessary; 3. And engendered extraordinary fortitude of character; 4. Feeling was mastered through reconceiving its object.
- 5. A method effective in controlling anger and fear6. But understanding events does not necessarily make them acceptable; 7. And if it dissolves evil, it also dissolves good; 8. Stoic fortitude paralysed sympathy; 9. The total suppression of feeling would destroy all value; 10. And entail the wreck of the moral life; 11. The importance of feeling has been vividly attested by Mill; Chapter III St Francis and the supremacy of feeling; 1. There have been various experiments on governing life by feeling; 2. Of which that of St Francis is the most attractive.
- 3. It involved a total surrender to love4. A love that extended to the animal world, and even beyond; 5. St Francis repudiated intellectual interest; 6. As is shown in his theology and his practice; 7. He sought to embody a love that was wholly selfless; 8. But this unhappily conflicts with justice; 9. And humility, when unqualified, is incoherent; 10. His attitude toward mateial goods was slf-defeating; 11. Indeed love itself is self-defeating when not implemented by knowledge; 12. And is unable by itself to discriminate among its objects; 13. Summary.
- Chapter IV The dialectic of reason and feeling in british ethics1. Opinion is divided on belief and feeling in moral judgment; 2. British thought upon it has shown a dialectic movement; 3. According to Clarke, the perception of rightness was intellectual; 4. Moral judgments do in some respects resemble mathematical; 5. But (1) they are far less definite in their terms; 6. (2) They require reference to consequences, not to timeless consequents; 7. And (3) they involve feeling; 8. Hence Shaftesbury and Hutcheson made goodness akin to beauty.